Prepare to Enjoy

September 3, 2024

Linger over here while the season changes

Wait for the glorious explosion of color

Fading into blankets of grey and brown

Skies darken later in the morning

Sending time through a slow transition

In Decline, My Ass

September 2, 2024

Observation of the moment in my place

Reveals abundant opportunity and grace

Neighbors harvest the fruits of artful labor

Tables swell with sensory delights to savor

We spend time in harmony and joy

Our community overflows with blessings

Revolution

July 30, 2024

Change comes in waves, moves the doors

Opens new thoroughfares into creativity

Leaves no excuse to remain motionless

Brings real urgency to the time remaining

Pivot

July 27, 2024

Withdraw the gloomy forecast of disaster

Take another look in a different direction

These projections have become dominant

Increasingly demented versions of reality

Are summoned up from paranoid dreams

To excuse those responsible from blame

The devastation that results is the same

Gradual Development

July 20, 2024 — 2 Comments

Time takes shape in leaves that sparkle

Limbs reach out to defend themselves

Straight from the soul of natural beauty

Bonsai is the art of pruning to teach

Outside Influences

July 19, 2024

Conditions surround every move

A startling number of circumstances

Remain obscured, plastered over by guilt

Stars do not illuminate a single possibility

Should we invest in this unclear vision

We may discover that the path

Has been washed out by fantastic goals

The never suited a personal purpose

But were adapted from propaganda

Vivid

July 17, 2024

Nature’s cycles remind us of our ancestors

The gardens they planted and nurtured

The uncertainty in every season they lived

The harvest is dwindling because of greed

This intense competition for resources

Can’t be what our predecessors wanted

Rose City

July 16, 2024

Portland, Oregon is known as the rose city

Much controversy over reputation

Culture and political history overshadow

The constant bloom of creativity

That never stops flowing like the river

Floating Mountain

July 13, 2024

Urban sensibilities fuel rapid social pace

With plenty of turnover and loss of meaning

Opportunities abound to consume it all

Fashionable ways to show power

Cynical ways to be entertained

Negligible returns on questionable investments

In the background a mountain floats

Above the historic events it observes

Waiting for natural forces to level the field

Bald Eagle

July 11, 2024

Soaring above me this morning

Two eagles crossed paths

Mounted separate thermals

To leave in different directions

It’s clear the government did not ask

Any bald eagle for permission

To use his image and his likeness

As the logo of a geopolitical game

Nothing would seem more ridiculous

To a creature of great vision

Than to be used in a bald faced lie